Arch Linux: ASA-201804-7 Medium: Zsh Denial Of Service Advisory

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201804-7
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2018-04-19
CVE-ID  : CVE-2018-7548 CVE-2018-7549
Package : zsh
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-642

Summary
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The package zsh before version 5.5-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 5.5-1.

# pacman -Syu "zsh>=5.5-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 5.5.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2018-7548 (denial of service)

In subst.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a NULL pointer dereference
when using ${(PA)...} on an empty array result.

- CVE-2018-7549 (denial of service)

In params.c in zsh through 5.4.2, there is a crash during a copy of an
empty hash table, as demonstrated by typeset -p.

Impact
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A local attacker can cause a denial of service via a specially input.

References
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https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7548
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7549